Hello Kitty invite...

So the other week I bought several different sizes Glassine bags with an idea to decorate them. As part of my April monthly kit for http://www.scrappychiclivonia.com/ . If you're ever in Livonia MI I highly recommend stopping by Scrappy Chic. It's awesome and she is contantly getting new stuff.  I wanted to make a fun little invite using the cute paper from Ruby Rock it - This paper was the Carnival queen/candy stripe.

I cut Hello Kitty at 5" using the shadow feature, the sillolutee and the layers from the Hello Kitty Cricut cartridge.

She needed a little tail smoke so I added some fun little SRM stiched swirls to the front and the back.

I folded the top of the bag over and slid my invite in there and added some yummy purple twine.
The ruffle ribbon is from Maya Road and if you haven't noticed I love that ribbon. :) It's so fun.

The top I added a "stitched" sticker from SRM.

Hope you like it.

I know a certain 4 year old who loves it.

Jinger Adams DT try out - Hello Kitty Part 2 - Get Well

Hello Kitty Party 2:
I knew when I made the Hello Kitty Get Well Soon card that I posted previously that I also wanted to make a cute little box to go with it. I am submitting this to the FANTASTIC Jinger Adams for a chance to be on her design team. Yes, this is gonna be awesome. She is coming out with some new products. I meet Jinger a couple of years ago and she is just as sweet as can be. I loved to watch her on HSN.  She is starting a new chapter of her life coming out with some new shoes, too. Wow, she is one busy lady.

Here is some basic information regarding the DT.
Jinger Adam's and The Scrapbooking Queen are looking for talented, motivated, responsible designers who have time to commit to designing layouts, cards and projects each month with Jinger Adams products and promote Jinger Adam's products line. We haven't set a specific number of designers to add to our present team . At this time are only accepting designer who reside in the USA.

I put a lot of time and effort into this Gable box and really hope you enjoy.  I recently had a friend who had back surgery the other day and loves Hello Kitty so I made this box for her.
I wanted to make sure it was strong enough to hold a few little goodies so I made it a "double" box.

Recipe:
Cartridge: Tags, Bags, Boxes and more 2. 
To get a larger Gable box I cut 2 box sections at Fit to page - which shows 11"
I scored it first with the scoring tool (LOVE IT!!!), then cut.
Kraft card stock for the base.
I then cut Heather (purple) sections (with out scoring) and glued on top of the Kraft card stock. This makes it really stable and strong. 
The trick is not to assembly the box at this point. It is much easier to decorate flat.

Cartridge:
Hello Kitty Greetings:
Cut - HK2  3 1/2" (HK w/ flower)
Cut - HK 3 3 1/2' (HK w/bear)
Cut - HK 7 3 1/4" (HK in bed)
Cut - Flower 1 - various sizes (the flowers on the box at 1/2" and 1", and flowers on the card at 1",  1 1/2", and 2"
All are cut w/ the coordinating layers.

Cartridge:
Kate's ABC
Font and Font Shadow cut at 1"
I used brown, pink, green, yellow basic card stock from Joann's.
I added a few Bubble gum stickles to the bows.
Queen and Company Rhinestones
Wood pattern embossing folder for the bed post.
White Gel pen for stitching

The HK w/ the bear is attached using an Action Wobble (LOVE them).
The HK in bed is attached with foam adhesive

Hope you enjoy and
Happy Scrappin'

Weekly Challenge #54: Decorative Letter Challenge! ****HK Part 1 Get Well Soon

PART 1: 

For the weekly challenge for the Cricut Circle was to make a project with a decorative letters.

I recently had a friend who just had back surgery and she is a huge Hello Kitty fan. So I thought instantly about her and this card.

Here is The Challenge: Create a scrapbook page, card, home decor item, or other project where you include a word of your choice. One or more of the letters in your chosen word must be replaced by a Cricut shape. For example, replace the letter “o” in the word LOVE with a heart.

Rules and Guidelines: Circle Blog Challenges are open to Cricut Circle Members only. Your project must be newly created for this challenge and include at least 2 Cricut Image Cuts. You must submit a project to be entered into the Challenge Prize Drawing. One entry per person, please.
How to Enter: Submit your entry using the InLinkz tool found at the bottom of this post. Please post your full name along with your entry. Entries are due by 9:00 pm MST on Thursday, March 29th, 2012.
Prize: We will select one winner to receive $25 in credit added to their Cricut.com account. Please allow 4 to 6 weeks for delivery from winner announcement.
Winner: The winners will be selected randomly from qualifying entries using www.random.org and will be announced on the Cricut Circle Blog on Friday, March 30th, 2012.
I used Hello Kitty Greetings cartridge, and Kate's ABC for the letters.
I used a Swiss dot embossing folder
Paper is from Joann's .

The Hello Kitty - in the bed is sized at 3 1/2 " - with layers.
The flowers are various sizes also cut from Hello Kitty.
The letters cut at 3/4 and 1" with the font 2 and font shadow. 
I kept the card simple - and made a 5x7 easel card.

Hope you like it and
Happy Scrappin'

The Season's....

All layed out ready to frame

 

Winter

Spring

Summer

Fall

 I made these cute little birds for a friend of mine who just bought a new house. I thought it would be a cute little house warming gift for her. She is an avid bird watcher so I thought these would be perfect for her. Here they are all framed up ready for hanging.

Here are the details:

Each season is made at 5x7".

The Winter, Summer, and Fall birds are cut at 3" and the Spring bird 3.5" all from 3 Birds on Parade. I used my Gypsy to hide the faces so I could use the cute little PKS faces.
The birdbath (sorry it was too perfect not to use for summer) was cut at 2.5" from 3 Birds on Parade.
The Bird houses and the tree cut  at 4" from Cindy Loo.
Snowflakes are from Arts Philosophy cut at varying sizes.
Clouds are cut from Hello Kitty Greetings varying sizes.
Grass is cut from Easter 2010  varying sizes.
Beach ball, sun,  and the airplane from pack your bags both cut at 1.5"

I added several layers of dimension - like the layering of the clouds, grass, leaves, and sun. The houses are popped up with Black foam tape (loving new foam tape in black).
I added a few little rain drops with Viva Decor, pearls, rhinestones, and the flowers are flower soft.

The faces are PK -460 Happy Lash Assortments and PK-753 Critter faces small. I think these are just soooooo cute.
I hope you enjoy.

Happy Scrappin'

Love is in the Air!!!! Blog Hop

Welcome to the Love is in the Air blog hop hosted by Paulette from Around the Block with Scrapalette! You should have arrived here from  the ever so talented Jami from http://thepaperfarm.blogspot.com/.

If you didn't, you can go to Around the Block with Scrapalette http://scrapalette.blogspot.com/. Start at the beginning of the hop and enter to win blog candy.  

Our projects are all about love and Valentine's Day.

My project is Hello Kitty "BE Mine" banner.

Want some blog candy??? OK then, I will be giving away a PINK smash book to one lucky hopper.

Here's the fantastic Line up for the Blog Hop:

Paulette from http://scrapalette.blogspot.com/ *** The hostess***
Dana from http://danascraftycorner.blogspot.com/
Beth from http://thunderbirdlindybydesign.blogspot.com/
Sis from http://papercraftscissors.wordpress.com/
Doreen from http://polkadotpaperprincess.blogspot.com/
Cindy from http://www.inlovewithpaper.blogspot.com/
Deb from http://www.queenmommy.com/
Michele from http://www.michelegreen.com/
Carolyn from http://cccscraproom.blogspot.com/
Colleen from http://scrappycol.blogspot.com/
Elizabeth from http://www.217creations.com/
Sukie from http://www.scrappindhilly.blogspot.com/
Sharon from http://designsbysharon.blogspot.com/
Renee from http://icameisawicreated.blogspot.com/
Tammy from http://www.scrapcavecreations.com/
Brenda from http://happyscrapper64.blogspot.com/
Amy from http://scrap-pix.blogspot.com/
Jami from http://thepaperfarm.blogspot.com/ ** You should of came from ***
Terri from http://scrappinwiththebug.blogspot.com/ ** That's me****
Meg from http://peacockpaperie.blogspot.com/ ** Up Next**

For the paper I used Recollections paper stack - called Butterfly Wings.
The White/black is just from my stash.
Cartridges used:
Hello Kitty Greetings cut at 2.5"
Rock Princess  - Font cut at 2"
Art Philosophy - hearts cut at 3.85"
The pretty little heart emobossing folder is from Darcie.
Some yummy pretty purple twine and a couple of eyelets finished it off.
                                           **** Bonus******
And for my Cricut Cuttlebug friends I'm sure you will find this funny and/or cute.

For the card I used Cricut Everyday and cut the cuttlebugs at 3.8" and 4.0".

The card and layer is cut from Art Philosophy at 5" wide.

The I<3U stamp and heart is from Emma's stamps/dies.

The eyes are from PKS stamps.

Thanks for hopping by and now hop to Meg from http://peacockpaperie.blogspot.com/

Please leave a way to reach you should you win the blog candy.

I will draw a winner on Monday 1/30

Happy Scrappin'

I'm entering this in the Decorate to Celebrate challenge too. Hope you all enjoy. You can check it out here:

http://decoratetocelebrate.blogspot.com/2012/01/challenge-17-valentines-day-party.html

Throwback Thursday Challenge: VALENTINE'S DAY CHALLENGE

Cards for my daughters Pre-School Teachers

Action Wobble

           So it's time again for Emma's fantastic Throwback Thursday Challenge.

Here are the details: You may visit her at: http://www.creativetimeforme.com/
*** This challenge is a VALENTINE'S DAY CHALLENGE! Use any cartridge of YOUR choice & just make a Valentine Card!

*** Link your project up to Mr. Linky below, then leave a comment!
*** Deadline for this challenge will be on Wed, Feb 8th @ midnight!
*** ONE project per person please!

So for this I made a few little cards:
I made 2 cards one for each of her teachers.
The 1st card I used Best of 2008 Cartridge - which is a sampling of cartridges released in 2008. The scallopped heart was cut at 3" and the little saying is from Emma's stamp set called More Gift Card Sentiments. I used a simple little ink on the edges and assemblies. Just something quick and simple.
The 2nd card I used Hello Kitty Greetings cartridge - I cut the wings at 2.5" and used the shilloutte layer for the black. The red heart is a shiny metalic paper. It's so sparkly pretty w/o being glittery.
I attached an action wobble and made it move.
The stamp IU and the dotted border is from Emma's Stamps set called Small Talk.

I used some of my scraps of paper for both.

The heart ribbon is from Michaels (bought a while back)
A little bling and it's done.

Hope you enjoy
Happy Scrappin'